We were rich and we didn't know it : a memoir of my Irish boyhood
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Clifton Springs Library - Adult Biography
Bio Phelan
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Lima Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
941.87 PHE
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Mount Morris Library - Adult Nonfiction
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viii, 210 pages ; 24 cm
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In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice Taylor's To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan's We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working under his wise and demanding father, JohnJoe, on a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. These stories recount Tom's upbringing in an isolated rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. As a child, Tom became aware that priests lived in warm, dry houses and saw that they never had muck or dung on their polished shoes. He began to dream of becoming a priest and traveling to sunny foreign missions, where he would baptize and teach pagan children. We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It offers you a glimpse of life in the Irish countryside in the 1940s, a time before rural electrification, the telephone, or indoor plumbing; when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. We become acquainted with the never-ending efforts of Tom's father to wrest a livelihood from the land. With tears and laughter, We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life's adversities.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Phelan, T. (2019). We were rich and we didn't know it: a memoir of my Irish boyhood (First Gallery Books hardcover edition.). Gallery Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Phelan, Tom, 1940-. 2019. We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood. New York: Gallery Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Phelan, Tom, 1940-. We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood New York: Gallery Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Phelan, Tom. We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood First Gallery Books hardcover edition., Gallery Books, 2019.

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